The new Dalet OnePlay aims to transform automated studio production

An intuitive user interface and powerful, unparalleled collaboration and orchestration capabilities enable a synchronized cross-platform experience that will open new opportunities for broadcasters.

The valley will reveal in IBC 2018 the advantages it will bring Dalet OnePlay, a next generation studio automation solution designed to modernize live productions, increase audience engagement and open new revenue opportunities, while optimizing operating costs and reliability.

Dalet OnePlay takes advantage of the capabilities of Dalet Galaxy Five workflow orchestration, MAM and NRCS to enable more efficient and collaborative productions, as well as more effective synchronized cross-platform distribution.

Raul Alba, product line director at Dalet, highlights that “news and sports content producers are constantly faced with the challenge of delivering more content to more platforms in less time, with the same resources, while ensuring consistency between delivery devices.”

"To be successful, they need reliable, highly efficient and flexible show production workflows. Dalet OnePlay helps meet those complex requirements while building a cross-platform experience around the show that will increase engagement with your audience. Component of the Dalet Galaxy five platform, Dalet OnePlay leverages advanced data models and operations driven by Dalet's workflow engine to synchronize the distribution of specific content across many outlets," adds Alba.

Workflow organization

Running on both desktop and tablet, Dalet OnePlay's modern and efficient web-based user interface offers an intuitive experience for controlling all major types of production devices, including video switches and servers, cameras, audio mixing consoles, graphics, lighting, routers and more.

“The innovative user interface enables a unique combination of automated and manual workflows,” says Alba. "Each editorial story is displayed in the form of a timeline that presents timed events that can be executed in a fully automated manner. In addition, users can add events to stories without timing information. These events can be manually controlled for broadcast and Dalet OnePlay will maintain the log information about the manual operation for future use. This type of flexibility is useful for journalists or other staff members who want to automate part of the workflow but allow the broadcast operator to manually control the broadcast of specific events."

Additionally, Dalet OnePlay leverages Dalet Galaxy Five's agile News Production and Workflow Orchestration capabilities to enable customized live production workflows with unmatched operational flexibility that goes beyond traditional studio production. The unified solution gives way to collaboration between show preparation and production teams.

"While Dalet OnePlay is designed as a single-operator tool that minimizes the resources required to manage live studio productions, the agility of Dalet Galaxy Five's core platform drives a "friction-free" collaborative workflow where work groups can interact with the studio operations team to create and refine the program even as it airs. This is especially important for live news and sports audiences, where story telling is evolving and timely, detailed information spanning multiple Screens are quickly becoming a vital medium for audience participation,” says Alba.

Finally, note that one of the most important aspects is the native interactivity between Dalet OnePlay and the Dalet workflow engine. "This is a very unique and powerful point of the value proposition. It allows producers and editorial teams to associate automated rules-based processes as a macro or a secondary event of the program. This means that they can schedule and automate social media messages or any custom distribution workflow, with any element of the library, in sync with the program," concludes Alba.